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- Title
Overall Rhetorical Structure of Students' English and Persian Argumentative Essays.
- Authors
Khodabandeh, Farzaneh; Jafarigohar, Manoochehr; Soleimani, Hassan; Hemmati, Fatemeh
- Abstract
This study investigates commonalities and differences in overall rhetorical structure within the Iranian EFL subjects in their Persian and English pre- and post-argumentative essays and also it examines the effect of two different treatments, namely, models with implicit instruction, and models alone. After conducting TOFEL test, 76 subjects were selected. They were randomly divided into two groups, an experimental group which received no-instruction treatment, and a control group which was instructed implicitly. A pre-test and a post-test were administered before and after the treatment. The quantitative analysis of the post-argumentative essays revealed that the implicit group outperformed the no-instruction group. This study is significant for genre analysis and contrastive rhetoric research.
- Subjects
ENGLISH as a foreign language; TEST of English as a Foreign Language; RHETORIC; PERSIAN language; ESSAYS
- Publication
Theory & Practice in Language Studies (TPLS), 2013, Vol 3, Issue 4, p684
- ISSN
1799-2591
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4304/tpls.3.4.684-690